Word: paragone
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...Tuck a goodly sum in your pocket. You will be given a chance to use it. You go from here to Rowe's Wharf. There you board a boat which will take you to a secluded spot near Nantasket where, with refreshments, the University Band and the proximity of Paragon Park you will be able to spend a very profitable...
...whom resided the ability to approximate in football the qualities of a Haughton, in baseball the genius of a Bill Clarke, in rowing the ability of a William Haines and so on, there would be no questioning the advisability of engaging him permanently. But of course such a paragon does not exist...
...Senior class picnic will be held on June 1. The class will probably go by steamer to Nantasket and spend the day at Paragon Park. The committee on arrangements has not yet completed the details...
...Paris newspapers which is not always a paragon of truth says the students at Harvard are going to take up Association football. May I say something in its favor? It is not a gruelling, prize-fighting game, nor is it one especially adapted for blacksmiths, stevedores or life-guardsmen. Nor is it particularly famous for shouldering, shoving, hauling, kneeing and mass-plays. Nor is it played by men in buckram, so padded and protected that the players' grandmothers cannot look at them without a shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball...
...plots, can the yard be made to have its usual beautiful appearance. The college horse, famed in antiquity, depends in a large measure, on the amount of the grass crop. Deprive him of his scanty meal of have from the yard, and who will draw the snow-plow, that paragon of our college appliances, next winter...